Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Departing Ungrateful Company

As fall goes on, one of the sounds we're guaranteed to hear is Canada geese honking as they gather for the flight south. I've often said they can't possibly be Canadian, since most of them scatter as far south as they can at the first hint of frost. Of course, there is a good share of human Canadians who do the same thing. Both migrating birds and migrating humans get the moniker snowbirds.

I thought I'd address the snowbird thing with a meme on this pic of two Canada geese I took earlier in the year, coming ashore off the Ottawa River.

I was always under the impression that quite a few of the Canada geese only fly as far south as the Washington, DC area. They seem to stay more and more year round. Must have found a way to get the Green Card. ;-)

I can't blame them for going to warmer regions.During the last nights I heard the first geese flying over my hometown too. They come from Scandinavia, looking for warmth and nice fresh grass in our region.

i really do not like the geese. why? they are so mean. hissing & such ... not nice to other animals at all. they don't play nice at all. so not fair ... & yes, they are too loud. quiet please. ha. ha!! ( :

A great many decided to stay in Northwest Washington. It usually (to them) is a temperate place to be and the silly two-legged beings feed them. Then they make such a mess, the people have to have them transplanted to some place different.

Very cute. Until this past November, I lived in Mississauga steps away from a park with a large pond. There was never a winter that we didn't have at least a couple of dozen of these beauties around. They were never too far from Lake Ontario if they needed more open water though. And there was rarely a spring that we weren't rewarded with the sweet goslings.. if only for a couple of days until they moved on.

migrating like birds also could solve many people's depression caused by winter or summer.. finally winter is coming but very slow.. still we have 35 deg C during day time. I saw 41 deg C for reel feel yesterday..